Show HN: Taken Photos – Free Stock Photos Annotated by AI

by msamoylov on 9/6/2019, 10:06 AM with 17 comments
  • by willvarfar on 9/6/2019, 11:05 AM

    This desperately needs a text search feature!

    The first thing I thought of was 'oooh, maybe put a pic on the landing page of this website I help out with' but I can't search for e.g. 'chess' or whatever theme I want.

    The whole point of the site is to annotate the photos, but then to not make them searchable by annotation? Shame!

  • by calibas on 9/6/2019, 3:00 PM

    Where do the images come from? The "About Us" page says they're all public domain, but this image has a copyright: https://taken.photos/photos/pink-flower-on-plant-3753020/

  • by wahlis on 9/6/2019, 11:57 AM

    My favourite is "A statue of a cement bench"

  • by masukomi on 9/6/2019, 1:55 PM

    Interesting. You _really_ need some way for folks to suggest improved captions.

    A tree with a mountain in the background.... completely ignoring the house which is the central focus of the photo.

    https://taken.photos/photos/tree-with-mountain-in-background...

    or the aforementioned "A cat sitting on top of each other"

    I'm thinking this is a great _starting point_ a way to bulk ingest lots of photos, but as a resource i'm going to loose faith in it every time i see an obvious AI screw up. Technically yes, they're still useful titles that help (well, they would help if you had a search which I can only assume you're planning because otherwise what's the point) but _emotionally_ i'm going to be "yeah but they're always wrong" (even if it's not true)

  • by lpellis on 9/6/2019, 11:51 AM

    What do you use for the AI labelling? Looks pretty accurate, but fun to see the random mistakes

    A zebra standing on top of a building https://taken.photos/photos/zebra-standing-on-top-of-buildin...

  • by neals on 9/6/2019, 1:21 PM

    "A cat sitting on top of eachother" https://taken.photos/photos/cat-sitting-on-top-of-each-other...

    some of these are comedy gold :)

  • by d--b on 9/6/2019, 2:56 PM
  • by mstolpm on 9/6/2019, 12:30 PM

    Nice work. But I would suggest to add a feature to report wrong tags. Perhaps that could even lead to optimize the classification AI or you could at least review the suggestions and delete wrong tags manually?

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  • by joshspankit on 9/6/2019, 11:38 AM

    Suggestion when adding text search: allow “and” tags, such as “outdoor AND person” or “people AND group AND smile”

  • by ethor on 9/6/2019, 11:08 AM

    Is there anyway to read more about the technical bits regarding how this is done, i.e. how are the annotations made?

  • by Mcafeesupport on 9/6/2019, 11:22 AM

    It was great news free stock photos annotated. http://mcafeeactivate-setup.info/